A teenager arrested on Remembrance Sunday on
suspicion of posting a picture of a burning poppy on Facebook is being
questioned by police.The 19-year-old was held after the image of a poppy being set
ablaze by a lighter was reportedly posted online with the caption: “How
about that you squadey cunts”.Police said the man, from Canterbury, Kent, was detained on suspicion
of an offence under the Malicious Communications Act after officers
were contacted at about 4pm on Sunday.

Farce #1: “Market value” and “free markets” have become a joke.
Farce #2: Private, self-assigned, fake value is being traded for public money at 100 cents on the dollar.
Farce #3: Printed money is backed by nothing.
Farce #4:
We have a “free” enterprise system dominated by monopolies that force
people to buy inferior goods and services at exorbitant rates.
Farce #5: High-level financial crimes, no matter how egregious or widespread, are not being prosecuted.
Farce #6: Risk is gone. Now there is only liability borne by citizens.
Farce #7: Productivity has been supplanted by parasitism.Charles Hugh Smith:Today I present a deeply insightful guest essay by frequent contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D.
Nothing succeeds like failure when you are a big bank. We’ve already
seen that. Too many articles have already been written about that.
Heads, the big banks win through their hugely profitable derivatives and
other fake wealth vehicles on the way up the phony growth curve.
Tails, you, the citizen, loses as you are forced to redeem this toxic
trash for real money in the form of government bailouts and Federal
Reserve purchases as fake value collapses.
“O, the inhumanity, O the injustice.”
Hey, we get it. You can stop pounding the drums. Bring on Act II:
“The current anti-capitalist farce and its riotous effects.”
Capitalism turned on its head
What happens to functioning capitalism when its core operating principles of value and money,
risk, private property, profit, supply and demand, price discovery, transparency and
accountability, productivity, and exchange of worth can selectively be erased on the whim
of self-interested, politically connected players?

Submitted by Tyler Durden: China, whose military capabilities are largely
mocked by the conventional wisdom, is ignoring the jeers and is rapidly
building up not only its navy, but is modernizing its air force now
too. Case in point: it just unviled its own military drone, which is a
spitting image of the US MQ-9 Reaper, with one typical Chinese twist: it
is far cheaper.

"China has taken the wraps off its latest military drone and fighter plane as the country builds up its defence capabilities.

The unmanned Yi Long drone can carry two missiles and although it
looks similar to the MQ-9 Reaper used by the British and US military it
is likely to be priced far more cheaply.

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper put the cost of the
Chinese drone at around $1m (£630,000). Andrei Chang, a Hong Kong-based
military expert who edits Kanwa Defence Monthly, said: "The Chinese
have spent a lot of money to develop a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle).

"They know that in future wars unmanned warfare will be very important."

Houston, we have a problem: more than 70,000 people have signed a
petition on the website of the White House asking for Texas to secede
from the United States.

Less than a day after RT first reported that
a petition demanding the secession of The Lone Star State from the US
was on track to cross the 25,000 signature threshold to warrant an
official response, the tally of people requesting the speedy removal of
Texas from the United States tripled, going from 21,777 signees to
72,861 in under 24 hours.The Texas petition was
published on the White House’s official website on November 9, but
wasn’t the first to ask for secession. While the request from the
oil-rich home of the Alamo was published just two days after Pres. Obama
was declared victorious in his quest for re-election, Louisiana was the
first state to ask for an exit from the union on WhiteHouse.gov, just
hours after ballots were tallied on Nov. 6. By the end of that weekend,
Texas and 18 other locales had created petitions of their own,
although the Lone Star State is by and large the first to cross the
25,000 signature threshold.

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss foul mouthed foreigners with banker
tourettes in Singapore, while in America, traders at Barclays send each
other expletive-filled emails admitting to manipulating energy prices
down in order to have their big bets on declining prices pay off. They
also discuss financial activists creating a rolling jubillee reverse
vulture fund designed to liberate the population from unpayable debts.
In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Teri Buhl about the
investigation into fraud at Sun Trust Bank where whistleblowers allege
the bank mis-sold mortgages to Fannie Mae, the government sponsored
enterprise. Max and Teri also talk about recent developments in the case
of residential mortgage back securities fraudulently sold to investors
by JP Morgan's Bear Stearns holding and Teri proposes a million man
march on the SEC and the NY Fed.

Many Palestinians are convinced that Arafat, whose West Bank grave is pictured here, was poisoned by Israel.

Press TV: Work has begun to
exhume the body of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser
Arafat for a murder probe eight years after his death.

According to a Palestinian source, the exhumation process, which
started on Tuesday with the removal of the mausoleum's glass and its
marble tombstone, could last 15 days due to the delicate work that needs
to be done by hand.

"It starts with the removal of stone and concrete and cutting the
iron (framework) until they reach the soil that covers the body, which
will not be removed until the arrival of the French prosecutors, Swiss
experts and Russian investigators," the source said.

French investigators and Swiss experts will arrive in the West Bank
on November 26 to take samples from Arafat's body. Russia will also help
the investigation.

The exhumation comes after French authorities opened a murder
inquiry into Arafat’s death this year after Swiss scientists found
traces of polonium, a radioactive substance, on some of his belongings.
Polonium is a highly toxic substance rarely found outside military and
scientific circles.

Submitted by Tyler Durden: For all our UK readers, who hope some day to
collect pension benefits, we have two messages: i) our condolences, and
ii) you won't. Why? The answer comes straight from the ONS:

The new supplementary table published by ONS in Levy (2012)10
includes the following headline figures for Government pension
obligations as at end December 2010:

Social security pension schemes (i.e. unfunded state pension scheme
obligations): £3.843 trillion, being 263 per cent of gross domestic
product (GDP) (£3.497 trillion at end of December 2009)

Centrally – administered unfunded pension schemes for public sector
employees (i.e. unfunded public service pension scheme obligations):
£852 billion, being 58 per cent of GDP (£915 billion at end of December
2009)

Funded DB pension schemes for which government is responsible: £313
billion, being 21 per cent of GDP (£332 billion at end of December
2009).

In summary, the estimates in the new supplementary table
indicate a total Government pension obligation, at the end of December
2010, of £5.01 trillion, or 342 per cent of GDP, of which around £4.7
trillion relates to unfunded obligations.

from the the-system-is-broken deptBy Mike Masnick:

Ars Technica has the story on yet another patent troll
-- though this one seems a bit special. TQP Development -- a typical
patent troll in so many ways -- has apparently gone on something of a
rampage over the last four years (and increased in the last year) suing hundreds of companies.
The list is impressive. Its most recent lawsuit is against Intel and
Wind River, but it's sued pretty much everyone you can think of. Apple,
Google, Twitter and eBay? All sued. Target, Hertz and Mattel? Yup.
The list goes on and on... and the company is able to get a bunch of
companies to settle just to get rid of the lawsuit. Apparently not a single lawsuit has actually gone to trial.

The patent in question, 5,412,730 is quite simple, with just two claims:

1. A method for transmitting data comprising a sequence of blocks in
encrypted form over a communication link from a transmitter to a
receiver comprising, in combination, the steps of:

providing a seed value to both said transmitter and receiver,

generating
a first sequence of pseudo-random key values based on said seed value
at said transmitter, each new key value in said sequence being produced
at a time dependent upon a predetermined characteristic of the data
being transmitted over said link,

encrypting the data sent over said link at said transmitter in accordance with said first sequence,

generating
a second sequence of pseudo-random key values based on said seed value
at said receiver, each new key value in said sequence being produced at a
time dependent upon said predetermined characteristic of said data
transmitted over said link such that said first and second sequences are
identical to one another a new one of said key values in said first and
said second sequences being produced each time a predetermined number
of said blocks are transmitted over said link, and

decrypting the data sent over said link at said receiver in accordance with said second sequence.

2.
The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of
altering said predetermined number of blocks each time said new key
value in said first and said second sequences is produced.

The Doc: Last week’s news that the Bank of England had stopped Quantitative Easing early because it was not needed was a load of rubbish. The
truth is that it was stopped early because MORE COUNTERFEITING WAS
NEEDED, and the BOE figured out a way to directly monetize the debt,
while out of public scrutiny. QE will continue TO INFINITY….AND BEYOND!!! on both sides of the pond.The MSM story actually compares the practice to Weimar Germany.As the Telegraph reports:

By James Hall:Last night City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and energy
regulator Ofgem both said they had launched investigations into the claims.

The FSA launched its investigation after whistleblowerSeth Freedmantold them
he saw evidence that wholesale gas prices, used as the basis for domestic
energy bills, were manipulated by some of the big power companies according
to a
report by the Guardian newspaper.

Mr Freedman, who worked at ICIS Heren, a firm which reports gas prices, said
he saw what he took to be suspect trading on September 28, which is an
important date as it marks the end of the gas industry’s financial year and
can influence future prices.

He told his bosses at the firm, a so-called price reporting agency, whose
energy prices are used as the basis for large supply contracts between
energy firms and gas suppliers, and they alerted Ofgem.

The benchmark prices that ICIS Heren sets are crucial because energy firms
base their forward-looking contracts on them. Small changes in prices can
cost or save companies millions of pounds.

Allegations of price manipulation come at a sensitive time for the energy
industry which has been accused of profiteering at the expense of customers.
This week millions of British gas cutomers wil see price rises averaging of 6
per cent. Other companies including Npower, SSE and Scottish power have also
announced price rises.
Experts say that average household energy bills could rise by £118 to a record
£1,428 next year. In 2004 the average bill was just £522.

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